Striker to A Boring Dystopia • 6 months agoShows how out of control inflation isimagemessage-square30arrow-up1451arrow-down1133
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minus-square@RememberTheApollo_link61•edit-26 months agoOf course it’s bullshit. The sky always has to be falling on Faux News, that’s how they keep the viewers scared, angry, and watching. MSN puts it at about $50: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/kevin-mccallister-s-grocery-haul-in-home-alone-in-1990-was-20-see-what-it-would-cost-now/ar-AA1ldFjI Even Snopes puts it at about $50 (last year’s pricing): https://www.snopes.com/articles/464088/kevin-groceries-home-alone-cost-today/ So Fox, as usual, is full of fearmongering shit. I’m not trying to downplay the idea that stuff is getting too damn expensive, it really is out of hand, just that Fox is garbage.
Of course it’s bullshit. The sky always has to be falling on Faux News, that’s how they keep the viewers scared, angry, and watching.
MSN puts it at about $50:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/kevin-mccallister-s-grocery-haul-in-home-alone-in-1990-was-20-see-what-it-would-cost-now/ar-AA1ldFjI
Even Snopes puts it at about $50 (last year’s pricing): https://www.snopes.com/articles/464088/kevin-groceries-home-alone-cost-today/
So Fox, as usual, is full of fearmongering shit.
I’m not trying to downplay the idea that stuff is getting too damn expensive, it really is out of hand, just that Fox is garbage.